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Part of the University Library Special Collections at UNC-Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Collection documents North Carolina’s history, literature, and culture by collecting written works, photographs, and artifacts.
The North Carolina Collection is a partner in our North Carolina History digital textbook project and has contributed both primary and secondary sources.
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- This illustration appeared in Harper's Weekly after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. The caption reads, "The effects of the proclamation -- Freed negroes coming into our lines at Newbern, North Carolina."
- Format: image/illustration
- 1853 map of North Carolina
- Map titled "A new map of Nth. Carolina: with its canals, roads & distances from place to place, along the stage & steam boat routes." Shows North Carolina as it existed c. 1850.
- Format: image/map
- Alexander Manly
- Format: image/photograph
- The Andy Griffith Show
- In Postwar North Carolina, page 2.8
- The Andy Griffith Show, which premiered in 1960, was initially disparaged by reviewers but became one of the most popular American television shows of all time.
- Format: article
- Arthur Dobbs
- Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765) was royal governor of North Carolina from 1754 to 1764.
- Format: image/painting
- Battle of Roanoke Island
- Format: image/illustration
- Bechtler gold dollar coin (obverse)
- Format: image/photograph
- Bechtler gold dollar coin (reverse)
- Format: image/photograph
- Benjamin Hedrick
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 7.6
- Letter from UNC professor Benjamin Hedrick to the Raleigh North Carolina Standard in 1856 justifying his support of the Republican candidate for President. Hedrick was attacked for his views and would be fired by the university.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- The Biltmore Forest School
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.8
- The pioneering Biltmore Forest School emerged from George Vanderbilt's desire for scientific management of the forests around Biltmore Estate.
- Format: article
- Blackbeard the pirate
- This illustration of Blackbeard is from Charles Johnson's book A General History of the Pyrates. Aside from this work, no other record of Charles Johnson exists. Many believe the book was actually written by Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson...
- Format: image/illustration
- Blockade of Wilmington
- Format: image/illustration
- Bombs over Goldsboro
- In Postwar North Carolina, page 1.8
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 2.12
- On January 24, 1961, a B-52 jet carrying two nuclear bombs crashed near Goldsboro, North Carolina. When one of the bombs was found, its arming mechanism had accidentally gone through all but one of the seven steps toward detonation, and a piece of the bomb containing uranium was never recovered.
- Format: article
- The Burnside Expedition
- Caption reads "The Burnside Expedition -- arrival of the naval and military expedition to North Carolina, under Commodore Goldsborough and General Burnside, at Hatteras Inlet, N.C., Jan. 17, 1862."
- Format: image/illustration
- Burnside Expedition illustration
- Format: image/illustration
- A call for independence
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.9
- After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence.
- Format: article
- The Carolina Coal Company mine explosion
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 7.6
- An explosion in a mine near Coal Glen, North Carolina, in 1925, killed fifty-three miners and led to the passage of the state Worker's Compensation Act.
- Format: article
- Col. James H. Young
- Format: image/photograph
- Counterfeit Bechtler coin (obverse)
- Format: image/photograph
- Counterfeit Bechtler coin (reverse)
- Format: image/photograph
